Eight Crazy Nights
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 27, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
20
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Critic Reviews

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75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
On the whole, this lively, bittersweet Columbia release works well and is sure to connect strongly with fans of Sandler at his most free-wheeling and uninhibited. Scrub off the latrine humor, and underneath there's a heart-tugging sentimental tale of uplift and redemption. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
An offbeat, sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
The film has good design, effective animation and generic if endurable songs, but Sandler wants to slam his sentiment and wallow in it too, and he compromises with the worst of both worlds. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Mazel tov, Adam, for having three movies released in five months. You should maybe spend more time on the next one? Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Isn't appropriate for any innocent child -- assuming such lovely creatures still exist. But boys and girls who enjoy surprise attacks in their entertainment (of the aforementioned toilet variety) are going to have a blast. Sad but true. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
It's hard to figure who this picture is supposed to be for. Although a cartoon, it's way too mean-spirited and crass for young kids (parents, be forewarned!). And the idea that any substantial number of adults would find this sort of thing entertaining ... let's pray civilization hasn't come to that. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldChristine Dolan
Do not, under any circumstances, consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
Myopic Whitey, continually passed over for a lifetime achievement athletic award, bears a passing resemblance to Columbia's all-time No. 1 animated star, the nearsighted Mr. Magoo. It's nice to think that if he ever went to this movie, he wouldn't be able to see it. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Both syrupy and scatological, this is a typical family-dividing Sandler comedy: Parents will hate it but the kids will delight in its rudeness. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The animated, Hanukkah-themed musical is, in fact, 75 minutes worth of belching, barfing and poo-jokes braided into a Grinch-meets-Scrooge-meets-"It's a Wonderful Life" storyline that's as stale as last year's potato latkes. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is as dreadful a holiday offering as you're likely to find this year. A lump of coal would be more welcome. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyDan Fienberg
In the end it's only "The Chanukah Song, Part 3," playing over the closing credits, that manages to capture the joy of the season. Read full review
30
VarietyScott Foundas
This is a dark, vulgar, brooding turnoff of a movie, minus the steady laugh quotient needed to appease Sandler's core constituency. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Its humor stems precisely from our enjoying its lead character's rotten behavior. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
I'd prefer to think of Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love," the one good movie of the three he did this year. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleC.W. Nevius
You've never seen a movie go from awwwww to ewwwww so fast. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
The worst Hanukkah movie ever made, Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights does for the holiday what "Santa Claus: The Movie" did for Christmas. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEd Halter
This dull extension of Sandler's ubiquitous "Chanukah Song" squanders the cross-cultural comedy potential of a Jewish-themed Christmas movie on cheap fart gags and boilerplate schmaltz. Read full review
10
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
In this vile contribution to the animated holiday genre, Sandler proves himself once again determined to get rich by setting the bar just a little bit lower each time out. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
A holiday film for the whole family, provided the whole family is obsessed with human waste. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
An appallingly tedious Hanukkah comedy that must have bubbled up from the Porta Potti of his subconscious.
0
Entertainment WeeklyBruce Fretts
You know all that artistic cred Adam Sandler built up with his acclaimed work in ''Punch-Drunk Love''? Well, he flushes it down the crapper with Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights -- the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog ''Rover Dangerfield.'' Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike, Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire. Read full review
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